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diagnose me please my whole body hurts like hell, DH thinks it could be terrible build up to period but feels extreme for that!

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hereidrawtheline · 16/04/2009 21:40

I do have a history of really horrendous periods but usually I spot bleed off and on for several days before they start and so far none of that.

This is how I feel, my breasts are huge and feel like they have lead weights in them and very sensitive. My whole back is one solid mass of pain like all the muscles have bunched together and knotted up. My neck feels wobbly and creaky and like its half broken when I rotate my head. The rest of me aches as well, my fingers and toes but to be fair they almost always do as I have had arthritis since I was 15 due to a reconstructive bone surgery in my legs. And to top it all off I have a migraine off and on for 3 days which is progressively getting worse and am about to go to bed with mucho pain killers. But in the meantime does this sound like the period from hell or a virus?

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hereidrawtheline · 16/04/2009 21:54

pitiful bump

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cornsilk · 16/04/2009 21:56

Combination of both? Sounds grim anyway. Take some painkillers and get to bed!

TaurielTest · 16/04/2009 21:58

Sounds dreadful, poor you. That's a whole lot of symptoms for even the most hellish of periods.
No bright ideas really, just wanted to say GO TO BED and if you still feel rotten in the morning, maybe see your GP?

Northernlurker · 16/04/2009 21:59

Sounds like an infection to me! I think you should see a doctor. A three day in duration and worsening headache and all over aching would concern me.

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hereidrawtheline · 16/04/2009 22:00

LOL yes I know I need to go to bed I am trying to get a job and train and its hard to do in the day with DS around demanding so I am just finishing up on the laptop so I know where to pick up tomorrow in his nap. I do think a trip to the GP is in order if I wake in pain like this tomorrow.

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Washersaurus · 16/04/2009 22:03

I've had a bug for the past few days that has made me feel like that, only with really awful stomach cramps on and off. I have had a touch of diarrhoea today so at least now I know I'm ill and not imagining it ...but strangely I do feel a lot less achey today (about Day 4)

I hope you feel better tomorrow after a good night's sleep

TrillianAstra · 16/04/2009 22:03

Influenza?

Not 'oh I've got the flu' but proper flu.

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hereidrawtheline · 16/04/2009 22:16

thanks, I'm going to bed now am sweating and boiling hot as I was this morning when I woke up, before DH left for work I made him bring me a cold wet flannel think I am going to get one now as well.

Am going to sleep now having just accidentally lost all the links/tabs I was trying to save for work tomorrow so having to go back and redo it and am now properly exhausted. Sure I will feel better tomorrow.

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Northernlurker · 17/04/2009 09:35

Hope you are ok this morning - please go to the doctor. A temperature, severe headache and aching including neck pain needs to be looks at now!

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hereidrawtheline · 17/04/2009 10:43

thank you, I do feel the same this morning, and went straight into another issue of rushing my cat to the vet for the 3rd time in 2 months, just got home. I will ask for an appointment at GP in their evening surgery. I do feel very rough and sore and my neck is killing me, its in the back really along my spine area.

As you can see if you trace my posts (please dont! ) I am a wreck!

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Northernlurker · 17/04/2009 13:22

Don't ask - you have to be seen! If they won't see you go to A&E please.

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hereidrawtheline · 17/04/2009 18:16

gosh it couldnet be that bad could it?

I called the surgery and spoke to my GP midday and told him my symptoms though I did legitimately forget to mention the pain in my breasts but that is most surely the period that is very slowly coming on... anyway he said as it was in my back and going up my neck to my head it was probably a muscle spasm that was recurring and also that the pain was making it continue, so he left prescriptions at the desk for me for anti-inflammatory, pain killers & sleeping tablets as its keeping me awake and that is I think making it a lot worse as my body just never relaxes in this pain.

What do you think? Does that sound alright?

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loopylou6 · 17/04/2009 19:06

i would go with hormonal too

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hereidrawtheline · 17/04/2009 20:49

well I just started spotting which normally happens a week before period proper. If I am to now get spotting for a week, bleeding for a week and previous to all that whole body pain for a week that will make me dealing with period issues 3 weeks out of 4! Nice. I want to get my tubes tied will that help?

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Northernlurker · 17/04/2009 21:16

Do you still have the headache and the fever? If you do then I think you need to be seen to rule out some sort of infection (fairly stunned your GP could do that over the phone!). If it's just the back and neck pain - and it is pain not stiffness? then i think the treatment you have is reasonable BUT you have to get this hormone stuff sorted! It is not normal for your period to dominate your life like this. Push for some medical relief. You could try starflower oil I think for the breast pain if you don't already have some.

If you still feel feverish though - forget all this and get yourself to a doctor!

Northernlurker · 18/04/2009 20:16

slightly worried bump

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hereidrawtheline · 18/04/2009 21:41

oh sorry I so did not mean to make you worry!! I just havent been on MN today I started my period properly today and then was out all day. The feverish feeling has pretty much gone and the pain is still there. You are very right though I am not going to let my period take over like this it is horrible. Especially as I dont want any more children so each month it just feels like a whole lot of shit for no reward. I mean, I dont need a monthly reminder I am fertile! So I will see the GP on Monday anyway especially quickly if still in the pain.

Can I just say though you are a real sweetheart to be worried about me, a virtual stranger! Thank you very much.

Now, how are you? Tell me all about northernlurker! LOL enough of my bloody periods. I meant bloody as in the swear word not descriptive sense.

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Littlefish · 18/04/2009 21:45

Could it be endometriosis?

Northernlurker · 19/04/2009 00:05

Glad to see you back Logical me thought that maybe you just had a life today . Anxious me thought you'd been carted off to hospital with horrible infection!

I'm fine thanks for asking - bit knackered though, very busy week here at home and work (I work in a hospital - manager not clinical)

I hope you get something sorted for your periods though - the endometriosis suggestion is an interesting one that would explain a lot of the pain and awful feelings you have.

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hereidrawtheline · 19/04/2009 00:55

endometriosis - isnt that a lot of low belly pain like an appendix pain? Will google it.

NorthernLurker my DH works in a hospital (not clinical) too See we are practically related!

I just watched Walk the Line. What a romantic movie.

I will get something sorted. I do really want my tubes tied. DH's hospital is doing a new procedure called Adiana Permanent Contraception System that sounds really good. I am going to ask for it.

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Littlefish · 19/04/2009 08:12

Found this on the NHS website

"Endometrial tissue anywhere in the body will go through the same process of thickening and bleeding, but it has no way of leaving the body. The endometrial tissue is trapped, which leads to pain, swelling and bleeding wherever the tissue is.

The most common symptom of endometriosis is pain or discomfort in the area where it thickens and bleeds, although some women have few or no symptoms at all."

thirtypence · 19/04/2009 08:18

I am also on my period and woke up this morning really needing the loo. Then i had to ask ds to bring a bucket as I was sure I was going to be sick, but couldn't risk turning around. Then I spend an hour sat there covered in sweat, then I realised I had blurred vision and really needed to take some aspirin to try and head off a migraine. Then I lay in bed for three hours feeling like death.

Strangely since the migraine went I just feel tired and drawn, and wondering what the heck happened this morning!

flightoftheeasterbunyip · 19/04/2009 08:43

Thirty I would get that bowel thing with my period, it's horrid - would need to go in a rush and feel quite sick as well.

I think it might be to do with having a retroverted uterus, ie it tilts backwards and is therefore in contact with the bowel to a degree - maybe? There was a thread about it a year or two ago, lots of us concurred we had the same thing.

I would put up with periods for a few years and have to get pregnant again to avoid it!!

AttilaTheMeerkat · 19/04/2009 10:32

Nothing to do with having a retroverted uterus.

Many women actually have a retroverted uterus and having such would not cause such symptoms to arise. Bowel and even bladder problems can occur due to endometriosis (I wonder how many women actually have endometriosis when they've been told by their GP they have IBS).

Women who have such pains should get this further checked out by a gynae, not just the GP. You do not have to put up with it but you will need to be persistant to get answers.

thirtypence · 19/04/2009 10:38

Did you get sweaty too?

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